Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

Trying to keep up with web standards when both you and your competitor can add anything they like to those standards is a one dollar auction.

The one with deeper pockets wins.

And Google's pockets are the deepest

@ellyqw btw. did someone chomp on the box? o.O

@silverfish @tk
and "technically illegal" only serves the purpose of giving us a topic for online discussions with unnecessary detail about how exactly things are technically illegal and how they'd have to be done to be technically legal

...except when we don't know the law well enough to have a discussion

@tk does it get paid from the budget the president has for running his office or sth?

@tk wait, it's not? What is it then?

@arstechnica
seems like his approach is:
"I can provide all orbital services Earth needs (even though they're still in early development), and if it turns out I can't, then noone else should be allowed to try"

ffs

I don't know what's worse: that during his first month in office he showed that he's blatantly irresponsible and will take full advantage of his conflict of interest

or the fact that he's still in office after doing that

@bl00d turns out you can make a game an extraordinary experience without making it solid

@lanodan @sjolsen wait what

$(OBJS): %.o: %.c

is not POSIX?
oof

@lanodan @sjolsen
Hmm so things like

\forall x \in xs:
$(x).bar: $(x).foo

\forall x \in xs:
$(x).baz: $(x).bar

that can be expressed in GNU make, cannot be expressed in POSIX make?

@sjolsen yeah, having make detect dependencies on C headers seems like such a hack...

I think Make really shines in case of deep static dependency trees. Arguably you could also use ninja for that, but make has the advantage of having variables that let you avoid repetition.

@icedquinn @asl
> cut services

you mean turn them off, or just disable alerts for specific services and stop caring if they're down?

> hire more

trying, but it's difficult

also I'm afraid that even if we had more people, we'd end up in the same situation in a year, because we're badly organized

> if people keep sleeping it

wdym by "sleeping it" ?

@asl @icedquinn

do you have a book that describes in detail how to determine if an alert is meaningful?

Do y'all have good resources on how to unfuck alerts / how to set up alerts such that you don't get tired of them and let things rot?

@nonfedimemes
https://kitsu.app/anime/dr-stone

@lanodan ??

I wish people would stop saying "explonentially more" for things that are quadratic.

@lynne am I allowed to resubmit previous season's submissions if they're 7 words? if so

"you owe me a 10 Terabit botnet"

Is this UB when p is null?

int bar(struct foo *p) {
int *py = &p->y;
if (!p) {
return 0;
}
return *py;
}

@sjb @tedu in the example I gave, the &p->y is, by definition, just pointer arithmetic.

So it won't segfault.
It might signed-overflow, but if the binary representation of null is zero, it probably won't.

But if optimizations are on, the compiler is free to use that statement as an excuse to remove the null check. Because if I did pointer arithmetic on p, then surely p can't be null, right?

@sjb @tedu does the C standard say anything about tgat?